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Beginning of a query submitted to Maimonides, beginning by telling about a local man who is now living in another city (the rest is too …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Minute fragment of a fiscal document, probably. Mentions numbers in the 500s in multiple entries and a kharājī year. Reused for Judaeo-Arabic or Hebrew jottings.
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Rental deed. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Thursday, 22 Tammuz [5]355 AM = 29 June 1595 CE. Yaʿaqov Castro is renting to Yosef Loḥamit. Signed by Moshe …
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Letter of recommendation from a judge in Aleppo (צובה) on behalf of Binyamin Mizraḥi. In Hebrew. Late. There is a postscript in a different hand …
Subsequent use: Unidentified document in Arabic script. The handwriting looks Ayyubid or early Mamluk. Needs examination.
One line from a state document, possibly a decree, praising somebody: وابائه(؟) خير(؟) جميل الراي فيك وما عهد من استيقاف(؟) مقاصدك ومساعيك. Reused for a …
Qaraite contract of betrothal (erusin). In Hebrew. Bride: Mubāraka. Groom: Yiṣḥaq b. ʿEli. He paid the first installment of 30 dinars at the time of …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Tax receipt. ʿAlāma in the upper right, jahbadh signature at bottom.
Letter address, in Arabic script. From the head of the Yeshiva (رأس المثيبة) to Ramla. "الرملة يصل ان شا الله". Name of the addressee to …
Document of release concerning a partnership, denoted here as ‘mufawwada.’ (Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman, The Business of Identity, Stanford University Press, 2014, 112, 365) EMS
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper right corner). Opens with a complaint about the difficulty of life. Then, "I leased her qāʿa and I lived..." …
Reused for legal jottings in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE), which mention Sutūt the wife of Khalaf b. Qashqūsh; a real-estate …
Draft of a legal document. Confirming a settlement (ṣulḥ) negotiated by elders. A release by Shemuel b. Aharon for Nissim b. Meshullam and his brother …
2 نسخين 2 مناقشتان
Letter in Arabic script. Opens with an ornate "al-izza lillāhi taʿālā." Addressed to al-amīr al-rayyis Abū l-Faḍāʾil. The letter gives instructions concerning business matters and …
Marriage document (ṣadāq) from Uqlūl in the Fayyūm dated Jumādā I 452. On the verso, there is a later acknowledgment (iqrār) recording the divorce (ṭalāq). …
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Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Yeshaʿya ha-Kohen to Yiṣḥaq Ḥemdat ha-Yeshiva. The addressee might be Abū Isḥāq Avraham b. Natan ha-Sheviʿi who was also known as …
Part of a ketubba. Bride: Luʾluʾa bt. Shemarya (לולוה, meaning Pearl). Groom: Yiṣḥaq Kahana the cantor. Dated 4[8]44 AM = 1083/84 CE. Location: ‘on the …
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Very neat lines. Headers include terms such as "al-aṣl" "al-iḍāfa" and maybe "al-ṭārima." On recto there is …
Letter from Yeḥezqel b. Eli ha-Kohen (identification based on comparison with DK 233.2), evidently in Jerusalem, to Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan b. Isḥāq al-Ṣārifī (!), in …
Bottom part of a letter addressed to "Sayyidnā." In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions [...] al-Maḥallī; Bū l-ʿIzz Yūsuf; [...] b. Mūsā; Yūsuf b. Ibrāhīm; and [...]b b. …
Verso (original use): Small fragment of a letter or official document in Arabic: "min sāʾir al-amākin... yakhruj min ṭawāḥī[n?]...." Recto (secondary use): Order for something …
Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Yosef b. Ismāʿīl al-Iṭrābulusi, Ascalon, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Circa 1060. Discusses the import and export of goods through Ascalon. …
Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably addressed to Avraham Maimonides. Not much of the content is preserved.
Announcement from the Jewish association of charity and brotherhood to participating members in the funds of al-Kūrātšīyūt[?] paid in their contributions from the previous year …
Record of the testimony of Tiqva, known as Raja' (רגא, ‘hope') b. 'Azariah the cantor, concerning someone from Damascus whose name is only partially preserved …
Draft of the beginning of a letter from an unidentified person addressed to his or her mother al-Ḥurra and his or her sister Jawhara. In …
Fragment of a letter from Yehuda ha-Kohen b. Yosef to Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1070. The writer answers Nahray’s request to check the option of …
Formula of a 'pesuka de-gita' - bill of divorce (get) by proxy, written by Hillel b. Eli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). This formula is unique as …
State document in Arabic, two lines are visible. Fatimid-era. There is also a remnant of an Arabic text on recto mentioning "Isrāʾīl ʿalayhi al-salām," probably …
Fragment from the beginning of a letter to a dignitary. In Hebrew for the introduction, Judaeo-Arabic for the body, and Arabic for the address on …
Informal note addressed to the judge Eliyyahu b. Zekharya (dates: 1204–36). In which one of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit flatters Eliyyahu by saying that …
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Small fragment probably from the end of a memorial list for ʿAmram he-Ḥasid the Pious and his son Moshe ha-Talmid he-Ḥasid. Also mentions someone ha-Bavli …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Sahlan b. Avraham, Fustat, ca. 1046.
Legal document according to which Efrayim Abu Kathir b. Masliaḥ owes Yosef b. Shelomo 4 dinars, to be repaid 2 dinars per year. Signed by …
Small fragment with a rudimentary geometric illustration. For a similar design, see: ENA 2231.2 (PGPID 39723).
Letter from Musa b. Abi al-Hayy in Alexandria to Abu Yahya Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1057 (Gil). This is one of two …
אעלמך יאמולאי אן תקדם כתאבי אליך מע אלפיג תם כתבת כתאב אכר מן קבל אלמועד ולם ימצי אלפיג
ובקי מעי למא כאן אכתב רקעתי הדה דפעתה ללפיג וכאן על…
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Small fragment of official correspondence in Arabic script; portions of 3 lines are preserved with wide space between them. Difficult to read any full phrases. …
Blessings in Hebrew, likely from the top of a letter of appeal for assistance.